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Study Links More Marketing Of Opioids To More Overdose Deaths

Beginning in the late 1990s, drugmakers' aggressive marketing campaigns contributed to a proliferation of prescription opioids across the US, whichaddiction exp...

CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) Was Coveraged By UBS with $75 Target

Miles Capital stated it has 0.21% of its capital in CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS). Illinois-based Dearborn Prtnrs Ltd Liability has invested 0.83% in CVS...

More women catch Ebola in Congo in ‘unexpected’ twist of gender roles

Health authorities also confirmed 237 cases of "persons cured", with a further "200 suspect cases still under investigation". "Since the start of the epidemic...

NIH & Fitbit launch BYOD project

Fitbit users that are currently enrolled in the Precision Medicine Initiative program can now sync their accounts and share their data with NIH researchers, inc...

Florida governor wants ban on smokeable medical pot ended

The Republican governor, who took office on January 8, said the state has lagged in carrying out the constitutional amendment that passed with the support of mo...

Scientists grow human blood vessels in the lab in "game changing" breakthrough

He said the application would be far reaching even just among diagnosed diabetes , who number 420 million worldwide. Similar research to fix blood vessels ...

Measles outbreak in Waikato region concerns health professionals

Then on Thursday, the department announced 16 confirmed diagnoses and five suspected cases. Additionally, sporadic cases might still pop up from time to time. S...

Winter Weather Killed 15 Children In Syria

The organization emphasized that harsh cold and the absence of medical care for mothers before and during birth are progressively putting the lives of babies an...

Chocolate better for coughs than cough syrup, study says

Results from those who took the chocolate medication showed "significant improvement" of symptoms within two days when compared to those on the cough syrup. "Th...

Man's attempt to treat back pain with semen injections goes horribly wrong

The man said he developed the treatment as an "innovative" method of treating his chronic back pain which began after he lifted a steel heavy object. The man ...

Exercise to keep dementia at bay

People and families affected by dementia can hear advice and strategies to fight the disease this week. After death, researchers examined the brain tissue o...

Londoners urged to get flu shot following first death of the season

The release advises members of the public to be aware of reports circulating on social media that are created to dissuade persons from taking the flu shot. Infl...

Cut meat to half-rasher a day to save planet

Walter Willett of Harvard University said the "world's diets must change dramatically" to reverse the damage that's been done. People in all countries now eat...

Man injects himself with own semen to 'cure' back pain

Details of his case have been revealed in the Irish Medical Journal , which notes there is no proof semen injections treat back pain or any other sores. It...

The current human diet is causing 'catastrophic' damage to the planet

In the report , the researchers say feeding a growing population of 10 billion people by 2050 with a healthy and sustainable diet will be impossible without tr...

PDPC slapped $750000 penalty on IHiS for breaching data protection obligations

Singapore Health Services (SingHealth) has been fined S$250,000 while Integrated Health Information Systems ( IHIS ), the IT agency responsible for Singapore's ...

Red meat report slammed by industry

An global team of experts has put lower meat consumption at the heart of a "planetary health diet" to stave off catastrophic damage to the Earth. While it agree...

National Safety Council: Opioid Overdose Now Causes More Fatalities Than Automobile Accidents

The Centers for Disease control has reported that life expectancy for US residents has gone down between 2016 and 2017. The probability of dying in a motor ve...

Walmart exits some CVS Caremark pharmacy networks

CVS said the break up won't affect Medicare beneficiaries in CVS's Part D drug plans, and it won't apply to Walmart's Sam's Club stores. CVS Caremark has requ...

Know how to counter ill effects of long-time sitting

The study found that replacing just 30 minutes of sitting with low-intensity physical activity would lower the risk of early death by 17 per cent, a statistical...

Dublin Injects Himself With Own Semen To Cure Back Pain

When a doctor questioned him about the swelling and a red rash, the man admitted to injecting himself with his own seminal fluids for a year-and-a-half, which...

Medical Marijuana Goes on Sale Today

Patients going on Wednesday should expect "longer than average wait times". The other two dispensaries set to open are in Sandusky in northern OH and Canton in ...

Microsoft and Walgreens join forces to 'transform healthcare'

Our strategic partnership with Microsoft demonstrates our strong commitment to creating integrated, next-generation, digitally enabled health care delivery so...

Patch with needles developed as month-long contraceptive in rats

The technology provides more options over a daily birth control pill and is less invasive than other long-lasting methods such as an intrauterine device, impl...

Romeo, The World's Loneliest Frog, May Have Finally Found His Juliet

They knew that the species was in big trouble and a conservation effort had to be urgently ramped up, but despite numerous subsequent searches, no other speci...

Physician monitored for Ebola released from Nebraska Medical Center

The unidentified health care provider, who's already left the city of Omaha, doesn't present a threat to the public, according to a news release from Nebraska...

Too much or too less sleep can increase heart disease risk

The paper analysed data drawn from the PESA CNIC-Santander Study , which tracked the development of atherosclerosis among nearly 4000 bank employees with an ...

Just A Couple of Joints Can Damage Teen Brain

Dr Orr's research has also shown there is a range of effects within the group of cannabis-using teens, which could be related to cognition and emotion. He added...

Baby girl breaks into infectious laughter after hearing her sister’s voice

At just a week old, she had to get a round of antibiotics for necrotizing enterocolitis , a disease that eats away at the stomach and intestines. She thought...

Sen. Rand Paul scheduled to have hernia surgery in Canada

The document says the surgery is related to the 2017 attack. Boucher pleaded guilty in March to attacking Paul over a beef about lawn maintenance. When a "l...